El antropocentrismo y el argumento de los vínculos emocionales
ISSN: 1989-7022
Year of publication: 2009
Issue Title: La consideración moral de los animales no humanos
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-13
Type: Article
More publications in: Dilemata
Abstract
Nonhuman animals are routinarily used as resources for us to use. An important argument in the literature on the issue claims that this is justified because we are not attached to them by the emotional ties that bind us to other human beings. This line of reasoning is examined here and found to be faulty as regards both its factual and its normative assumptions. This implies that the burden of proof rests on the side of those who want to defend the use of nonhuman animals. The paper concludes with the claim that until a sound defense of anthropocentrism is provided, we should assume that such use is not morally justified.
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